The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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Mr. Eric Praline: Aug 13, 2004; I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.

GringoGrande posted:

Something like this should work:
code:
sed -re 's|^(\w+), (\w+)$|\2.\1|' $filename > newfile
e: less backspaces

Thanks, worked great. (Tho it doesn't work in Solaris's sed, only GNU.)

One day I'll actually learn to use sed and awk for more than single-line change stuff.

# ? Oct 7, 2008 15:20

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# ? May 24, 2024 00:15

37ArmsToBind: Jun 30, 2007; Every Thug Needs A Lady

No one can help me with my problem?
It's on the previous page.

# ? Oct 7, 2008 16:20

Mr. Eric Praline: Aug 13, 2004; I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.

37ArmsToBind posted:

No one can help me with my problem?
It's on the previous page.

The thing with VLC? You said VLC is installed, so where's the problem?

Everything after "sudo yum install vlc" is for desktop integration.

Try opening a terminal and just running "vlc".

# ? Oct 7, 2008 16:31

37ArmsToBind: Jun 30, 2007; Every Thug Needs A Lady

Well look at that.
Thanks.

# ? Oct 7, 2008 17:15

LiquidRain: May 21, 2007; Watch the madness!

Hey guys, I'm trying to see if I can replace Windows with Ubuntu on my work Thinkpad X60s w/Intel 945G graphics. Hardy tends to lock at random points - sometimes numerous times per day and sometimes not at all, so I'm trying the Intrepid beta and all seems well for stability.

Having not used Linux on this laptop before (but plenty of experience elsewhere) I'm having serious vsync issues on everything using the stock Ubuntu config. Movie players are where the issue is most annoying, but it also happens in compiz and emulators. I tried disabling GLX only to check the Xorg.0.log and find out some magic config Ubuntu's hiding somewhere was enabling it despite my xorg.conf saying "Disable 'glx'" under modules. My only exposure to Linux video drivers before this was nVidia, where things just plain work a lot better and come with a nice (if a little flawed) config tool. No such luck here from what I can see though.

Any ideas on what I can do, besides seeing if I can coax a swap for a 965-based laptop out of the procurement department? (which would help if I ever wanted to run dual screen to my desktop monitor)

e: Going to answer my own question because the solution was like pulling teeth:

Use a .drirc in your ~ and an /etc/drirc file that looks like this:

code:

<driconf>
<device screen="0" driver="i915">
   <application name="all">
      <!-- Always synchronize with vertical refresh to avoid tearing -->
      <option name="vblank_mode" value="3"/>
   </application>
</device>

Then set applications to specifically use OpenGL. It seems to have fixed it. I also added "INTEL_BATCH=1" to my /etc/environments since it is supposed to improve performance by a good chunk. (as much as it can be on these chips, at any rate)

LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Oct 8, 2008

# ? Oct 7, 2008 18:54

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

Alowishus, you wanna help me with one more Zope problem? pleeeeeeeassssssseeeeeeee?

in addition to my last post - I found this in my apache error log

quote:

127.0.0.1 - - [07/Oct/2008:05:27:41 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 503 323 "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c (internal dummy connection)"

rugbert fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Oct 7, 2008

# ? Oct 7, 2008 19:59

Gumball Dad: Apr 9, 2007; Wanna meet that dad

I've recently set up a workstation with OpenSUSE 10.3. Everything is fine except one thing: I can't get sound in a web browser. I've tried Firefox and Konkeuror. The sound works fine everywhere else: VLC, games, etc. but when I go to youtube or any site with sound, I get nothing. I've installed the latest adobe flash player, the latest esd, no luck. This is driving me ape poo poo and I'm all out of ideas. Anyone got any?

# ? Oct 7, 2008 20:48

Prince John: Jun 20, 2006; Oh, poppycock! Female bandits?

Gumball Dad posted:

I've installed the latest adobe flash player, the latest esd, no luck. This is driving me ape poo poo and I'm all out of ideas. Anyone got any?

This is a known problem in Ubuntu Hardy with esd and flash certainly, does the following link help out?

http://ubuntuhelpguide.blogspot.com/2007/08/no-sound-in-flash-try-this-ubuntu-help.html

You may have to muck around with library paths depending on where Suse puts things, but that may get you started.

# ? Oct 7, 2008 21:13

fletcher: Jun 27, 2003; ken park is my favorite movie; Cybernetic Crumb

I run rtorrent under the user 'fletch' but when I upload torrents through the web they default to 0700 apache:apache, so rtorrent running by 'fletch' can't read them unless I change the permissions. What's the correct way to handle this? Is there a way to set the default permissions when apache handles an uploaded file?

edit: I just modified the rtgui frontend I was using to chmod the file after it uploads it. Problem solved!

fletcher fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Oct 8, 2008

# ? Oct 8, 2008 00:24

LiquidRain: May 21, 2007; Watch the madness!

So I solved my vsync issue. Now my refresh rate is stuck at 50Hz instead of 60Hz. I tried adding "VertRefresh 60" to my xorg.conf but that doesn't seem to have done anything. Changing the refresh rate specified in "Monitor Resolution Settings" also doesn't appear to do anything in Ubuntu. So I'm left wondering where the mystery refresh rate is kept - ddcprobe tells me that dtiming for 1024x768@61 and 1024x768@49 is available, and Ubuntu seems to be stubbornly sticking to 50.

e: it seems Intrepid has moved to using HAL to supplement xorg.conf, so it might be overriding pretty much anything I have in my xorg.conf. Vexing.

LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 8, 2008

# ? Oct 8, 2008 01:02

shehackedyou: Aug 14, 2004; it is never too late to give up your prejudices

I am running a Gentoo Server with Apache 2 and trying to get SSL to work properly.

My http connection works fine and I am able to connect but when I switch to https I get this error

ssl_error_rx_record_too_long

After doing some research it appears that my ssl configuration is hosed. However I have been playing with everything I can think of and tried all the suggestions given and nothing has resolved my issue.

Anyone familiar with this? Anyone want to see my httpd.conf and tell me how I messed it up.

# ? Oct 9, 2008 01:15

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

I'm trying to use PHP to connect to a remote linux system (MySQL server).

I can't get a connection going, which I can with all of my other servers. Even with telnet, I can get a connection going with the port MySQL is listening on (3306). Networking is not skipped, and there is no bind-address in my.cnf.

There are no hardware firewalls between the two systems.

nmap reveals: 3306/tcp open mysql

A list of the processes I have running are:

code:

PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:00 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 migration/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 watchdog/0
    5 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    6 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    7 ?        00:00:00 kthread
   10 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
   11 ?        00:00:00 kacpid
  106 ?        00:00:00 cqueue/0
  109 ?        00:00:00 khubd
  111 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
  171 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
  172 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
  173 ?        00:00:05 kswapd0
  174 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
  331 ?        00:00:00 kpsmoused
  354 ?        00:00:00 ata/0
  355 ?        00:00:00 ata_aux
  358 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
  359 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
  364 ?        00:00:00 kmirrord
  371 ?        00:00:52 kjournald
  392 ?        00:00:00 kauditd
  418 ?        00:00:00 udevd
  850 ?        00:00:00 kedac
 1230 ?        00:00:00 kmpathd/0
 1255 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
 1616 ?        00:00:01 syslogd
 1619 ?        00:00:00 klogd
 1628 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 1645 ?        00:00:00 automount
 1662 ?        00:00:00 acpid
 1671 ?        00:00:00 sshd
 1683 ?        00:00:00 ntpd
 1818 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
 1826 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
 1836 ?        00:00:00 gpm
 1846 ?        00:00:01 httpd
 1855 ?        00:00:00 crond
 1894 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 1911 ?        00:00:00 atd
 1920 ?        00:00:00 faxq
 1923 ?        00:00:00 hfaxd
 1935 ?        2-13:56:11 yum-updatesd
 1944 ?        00:00:01 hald
 1945 ?        00:00:00 hald-runner
 1951 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 1956 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
 1968 ?        00:06:18 hald-addon-stor
 2088 ?        00:00:00 safe_asterisk
 2099 ?        01:47:20 asterisk
 2201 ?        00:00:00 bash
 2202 ?        00:00:00 sh
 2209 ?        00:06:04 astmanproxy
 2225 ?        00:00:00 smartd
 2230 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
 2231 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
 2232 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
 2233 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
 2234 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
 2235 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
 2236 ?        00:00:00 prefdm
 2237 ?        00:00:00 iaxmodem
 2238 ?        00:00:02 faxgetty
 2297 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
 2333 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
 2337 tty7     00:00:00 Xorg
 2383 ?        00:00:00 gdmgreeter
16844 ?        00:03:25 httpd
16845 ?        00:03:23 httpd
16846 ?        00:03:26 httpd
16847 ?        00:03:26 httpd
16848 ?        00:03:25 httpd
16849 ?        00:03:25 httpd
16850 ?        00:03:26 httpd
16851 ?        00:03:23 httpd
10603 ?        00:02:12 httpd
20425 ?        00:00:53 op_server.pl
29961 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
30001 ?        00:00:00 mysqld
30659 ?        00:00:00 sshd
30661 pts/3    00:00:00 bash
30701 pts/3    00:00:00 ps

Can anyone help me find out what may be screwing up with my ability to connect, or what I can check to find out what's behaving so screwy?

# ? Oct 9, 2008 02:49

bitprophet: Jul 22, 2004; Taco Defender

You tried telnet -- did you try an actual mysql client program? (i.e. 'mysql -h myremoteserver.com') See if that works first. And, how exactly is it not working in PHP?

# ? Oct 9, 2008 04:12

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

bitprophet posted:

You tried telnet -- did you try an actual mysql client program? (i.e. 'mysql -h myremoteserver.com') See if that works first. And, how exactly is it not working in PHP?

It's not specifically PHP related. At least, I don't think it is. I've tried mysql -u username -h hostname -P 3306 -p databasename from clients in several locations (in case there was a firewall I didn't know about).

The error I get is :

Error 2003 : Can't connect to MySQL server on '209.212.93.32' (10060)

I've been to this page: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html

and have tried everything they suggested, leaving the only untested option that there's some kind of firewall or connection blocking service on my machine.

I ran iptables -L on the machine and got:

code:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere            

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere            

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp any 
ACCEPT     esp  --  anywhere             anywhere            
ACCEPT     ah   --  anywhere             anywhere            
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             224.0.0.251         udp dpt:mdns 
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:ipp 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ipp 
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:ftp 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:smtp 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:ssh 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:https 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:upnotifyp 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp dpt:http 
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:iax 
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:sip 
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpts:ndmp:30000 
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Any of these rules (or lack of) could be the culprit?

# ? Oct 9, 2008 14:45

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

UltraRed posted:

It's not specifically PHP related. At least, I don't think it is. I've tried mysql -u username -h hostname -P 3306 -p databasename from clients in several locations (in case there was a firewall I didn't know about).

What does netstat -anp look like?

# ? Oct 9, 2008 16:00

bitprophet: Jul 22, 2004; Taco Defender

Yea, the port and address(es) it's listening on is more likely to be the culprit than a firewall rule. Oftentimes MySQL is bound to localhost -- I know I do this on every production box I get my hands on because having it open like you're wanting is a pretty awful security risk unless you have the specific need. And even then you should be using SSH tunnels if at all possible

Apologies if you implied that you already checked this (you did say it was on port 3306 and a lack of bind-address setting, but that still doesn't tell me explicitly whether it's localhost-bound or not -- default settings can vary).

Not an ipchains/iptables expert but none of those rules look like they'd be causing a problem.

# ? Oct 9, 2008 17:57

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

bitprophet posted:

Yea, the port and address(es) it's listening on is more likely to be the culprit than a firewall rule. Oftentimes MySQL is bound to localhost -- I know I do this on every production box I get my hands on because having it open like you're wanting is a pretty awful security risk unless you have the specific need.

Yep. I'd asked for the netstat output because my thinking is right in line with yours.

bitprophet posted:

Not an ipchains/iptables expert but none of those rules look like they'd be causing a problem.

Could also be tcpwrappers.

# ? Oct 9, 2008 19:05

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

netstat -anp (slightly modded)

code:

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      30001/mysqld        
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5038                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2099/asterisk       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4559                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1923/hfaxd          
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5040                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2209/astmanproxy    
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1818/sendmail: acce 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4445                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      20425/perl          
tcp        1      0 THEMACHINEIP:39516        REPOSITORY:80             CLOSE_WAIT  1935/python         
tcp        1      0 THEMACHINEIP:48850        REPOSITORYMIRROR:80             CLOSE_WAIT  1935/python         
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:59646             127.0.0.1:5038              ESTABLISHED 20425/perl          
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5038              127.0.0.1:56446             ESTABLISHED 2099/asterisk       
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:56446             127.0.0.1:5038              ESTABLISHED 2209/astmanproxy    
tcp        1      0 THEMACHINEIP:53938         ANOTHERREPOSITORY:80            CLOSE_WAIT  1935/python         
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5038              127.0.0.1:59646             ESTABLISHED 2099/asterisk       
tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*                        LISTEN      1846/httpd          
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN      1671/sshd           
tcp        0      0 :::443                      :::*                        LISTEN      1846/httpd          
tcp        0     52 ::ffff:THEMACHINEIP:22     ::ffff:THEOFFICEIP:39133 ESTABLISHED 14902/3             
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5060                0.0.0.0:*                               2099/asterisk       
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4569                0.0.0.0:*                               2099/asterisk       
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4570                0.0.0.0:*                               2237/iaxmodem       
udp        0      0 THEMACHINEIP:123           0.0.0.0:*                               1683/ntpd           
udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:123               0.0.0.0:*                               1683/ntpd           
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:123                 0.0.0.0:*                               1683/ntpd           
udp        0      0 fe80::230:48ff:5f3f:123     :::*                                    1683/ntpd           
udp        0      0 ::1:123                     :::*                                    1683/ntpd           
udp        0      0 :::123                      :::*                                    1683/ntpd           
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node PID/Program name    Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     6701   2099/asterisk       /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5091   1894/xfs            /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     7407   2297/gdm-binary     /tmp/.gdm_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     7438   2337/Xorg           /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4949   1836/gpm            /dev/gpmctl
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5336   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-fPVMbWiNhD
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    1211   418/udevd           @/org/kernel/udev/udevd
unix  14     [ ]         DGRAM                    4471   1616/syslogd        /dev/log
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4506   1628/dbus-daemon    /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4599   1662/acpid          /var/run/acpid.socket
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    5348   1944/hald           @/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5335   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-r2nMYMnxOo
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     2266929 30001/mysqld        /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2268744 30001/mysqld        /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2268743 2099/asterisk       
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7507   2337/Xorg           /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7506   2383/gdmgreeter     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7502   2337/Xorg           /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7501   2383/gdmgreeter     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7475   1894/xfs            /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7474   2337/Xorg           
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7482   2337/Xorg           /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7442   2333/gdm-binary     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7441   1662/acpid          /var/run/acpid.socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7440   2337/Xorg           
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    7421   2297/gdm-binary     
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    7353   2238/faxgetty       
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6247   1628/dbus-daemon    /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6246   1944/hald           
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6226   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-r2nMYMnxOo
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6225   1968/hdc            
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6075   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-r2nMYMnxOo
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6070   1956/event0         
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6045   1662/acpid          /var/run/acpid.socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6044   1951/acpid.socket   
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6039   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-r2nMYMnxOo
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6034   1951/acpid.socket   
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6026   1628/dbus-daemon    /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     6025   1935/python         
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     5343   1944/hald           @/var/run/hald/dbus-fPVMbWiNhD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     5342   1945/hald-runner    
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    5338   1935/python         
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    5289   1923/hfaxd          
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    5168   1920/faxq           
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    5020   1855/crond          
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4940   1836/gpm            
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4918   1826/clientmqueue   
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4888   1818/sendmail: acce 
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4655   1683/ntpd           
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4562   1645/automount      
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     4509   1628/dbus-daemon    
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     4508   1628/dbus-daemon    
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    4479   1619/klogd

quote:

you should be using SSH tunnels if at all possible

That sounds like a good idea. I'll try that tomorrow or Monday.

# ? Oct 9, 2008 23:48

grumm3t: Jul 1, 2004; k

Was does the --grow option on a filesystem do? Does it create the fixed size partitions first, then use whatever space is left for the --grow filesystem? If so, can I tell it to grow to a % of the leftover space? Can I do this for LVM? I usually see it online for ext2/3 filesystems.

e:grammar

# ? Oct 9, 2008 23:56

Reverse Logic: Aug 20, 2005

I'm having some issues with wine on FC9 x86_64 when trying to use the cdrom in an emulated program.

For example, I installed Starcraft earlier today. It installed just fine from the CD. When I try to run the program, it tells me it can't read a required file, and that I need to make sure the CD is in the drive. I tried other programs, too, just to make certain it's not a fluke. Still does not seem to be able to read the cd drive.

I made sure that I have a cdrom installed on the wine config software, and I've made certain that the cdrom was mounted correctly. The wine config software can even read the name of the volume in the drive, but the emulated program still cannot access the files.

Any suggestions?

edit: I'm retarded. I'm running wine 1.1.5.

Reverse Logic fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Oct 10, 2008

# ? Oct 10, 2008 01:56

The Remote Viewer: Jul 9, 2001

Wasn't Ibex supposed to be pretty or something? Apparently the Ubuntu team has a drag queen's eye for beauty and subtlety because yet again they passed over several great mockups and even a working theme for something that looks like dogshit yet again.

# ? Oct 10, 2008 02:34

Lucien: May 2, 2007; check it out i'm a samurai ^_^

The Remote Viewer posted:

Wasn't Ibex supposed to be pretty or something? Apparently the Ubuntu team has a drag queen's eye for beauty and subtlety because yet again they passed over several great mockups and even a working theme for something that looks like dogshit yet again.

Wow that sucks, I was looking forward to the fresh artwork. Now I might switch to Mint instead of upgrading to Intrepid.

Actually I want to give Arch another shot but I can't afford to spend a full day messing with configuration files.

# ? Oct 10, 2008 05:12

JoeNotCharles: Mar 3, 2005; Yet beyond each tree there are only more trees.

The Remote Viewer posted:

Wasn't Ibex supposed to be pretty or something? Apparently the Ubuntu team has a drag queen's eye for beauty and subtlety because yet again they passed over several great mockups and even a working theme for something that looks like dogshit yet again.

This is the second time I've seen someone link to that theme and say it looks great. WTF? That's butt-ugly.

# ? Oct 10, 2008 05:55

The Merkinman: Apr 22, 2007; I sell only quality merkins. What is a merkin you ask? Why, it's a wig for your genitals!

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1
What can I use to let my friends using AIM* view my webcam?

My webcam is some Logitech version, I think Communicate STX. The cam itself works fine in Linux as I can see myself when I run camorama.

Pidgin doesn't (and probably never will) have webcam support
I've tried Kopete, and while it finds my cam I can't find a way to start a view, and recieving doesn't work either
I've tried Windows XP in Virtualbox, but I can't get it to detect my cam.
The Linux native AIM is a pitiful version 1.5
I tried AIM in WINE (1.1.6) and that wouldn't run at all.

*telling me to tell them to download use some other program like Skype is not an option.

# ? Oct 11, 2008 16:52

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

Ok. After doing lots of reading and figuring out and trial and error. I'm fairly comfortable with linux. Now I'm ready to actually multiboot. I have 3 partitions created. My primary (/dev/sda1) has a Windows XP install. /dev/sda2 is Swap. and /dev/sda3 has all my linux files copied to it.

I booted from a USB key so whenevr I get into linux my /home and /root is one the USB drive and its non-persistant.

What I did to prepare the installation is

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/sda3

and that copied everything from the USB drive I was booting from to my new linux partition. Now I just need to boot into it. I've tried various methods, but I don't know how to direct any of the linux loaders to boot from XP to the third partion I've got. I just need a config file or something to direct it the new partition but I can't find anything like that.

I'd also like to do this without a livecd or a floppy drive or any of that crap. I have a working install from a USB key, now I want to make it work from my harddrive without the USB part.

ate shit on live tv fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 11, 2008

# ? Oct 11, 2008 22:58

The Remote Viewer: Jul 9, 2001

JoeNotCharles posted:

This is the second time I've seen someone link to that theme and say it looks great. WTF? That's butt-ugly.

What's wrong with it, and what do you consider good-looking?

# ? Oct 12, 2008 01:19

Pardot: Jul 25, 2001

I want to remap the windows key to escape. I did

code:

xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = Escape"
xmodmap -e "keycode 116 = Escape"

And logged out and back in, and it didn't work. So I did xmodmap -pke > .xmodmap, and looked at the file. It did have the modifications I had in. I also tried restarting to see if it would take, but it hasn't.

This article is specific to the keyboard, and says that the windows key shows up as meta in X, but other places said that left and right windows was 115 and 116. If it is meta, am I out of luck? I haven't done too much with xmodmap before.

Also is there a way to see what keycodes buttons are? I'd like to remap the record button to something too, maybe.

# ? Oct 12, 2008 02:12

Peanutmonger: Dec 6, 2002

Pardot posted:

Also is there a way to see what keycodes buttons are? I'd like to remap the record button to something too, maybe.

You can use xev to verify the key code that it is showing up as. If it really is 115 and 116 I'm not sure what's wrong...

# ? Oct 12, 2008 07:22

Pardot: Jul 25, 2001

Peanutmonger posted:

You can use xev to verify the key code that it is showing up as. If it really is 115 and 116 I'm not sure what's wrong...

Awesome, thanks a lot. It was 97 apparently.

# ? Oct 12, 2008 08:20

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Help I installed Ubuntu next to Vista and now I can't boot Vista. I tried to make grub do the job but I get the error 'Invalid device requested'

This is the relevant part I added from /boot/grub/menu.lst

code:

title 		Microsoft Windows Vista
root 		(hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader 	+1

And here is df

code:

bpg@laptop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             55728284   2254968  50664756   5% /
varrun                  513516       104    513412   1% /var/run
varlock                 513516         0    513516   0% /var/lock
udev                    513516        60    513456   1% /dev
devshm                  513516        12    513504   1% /dev/shm
lrm                     513516     38176    475340   8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon      55728284   2254968  50664756   5% /home/bpg/.gvfs
/dev/sda5             37415352  33994000   3421352  91% /media/Vista

I think Ubuntu wiped out the windows bootloader when I installed it. I replaced my XP partition (the original OS on here) with Ubuntu and left Vista where it was. Help please

# ? Oct 15, 2008 08:23

Ashex: Jun 25, 2007; These pipes are cleeeean!!!

my stepdads beer posted:

Help I installed Ubuntu next to Vista and now I can't boot Vista. I tried to make grub do the job but I get the error 'Invalid device requested'

This is the relevant part I added from /boot/grub/menu.lst
code:
title 		Microsoft Windows Vista
root 		(hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader 	+1
And here is df
code:
bpg@laptop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             55728284   2254968  50664756   5% /
varrun                  513516       104    513412   1% /var/run
varlock                 513516         0    513516   0% /var/lock
udev                    513516        60    513456   1% /dev
devshm                  513516        12    513504   1% /dev/shm
lrm                     513516     38176    475340   8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon      55728284   2254968  50664756   5% /home/bpg/.gvfs
/dev/sda5             37415352  33994000   3421352  91% /media/Vista
I think Ubuntu wiped out the windows bootloader when I installed it. I replaced my XP partition (the original OS on here) with Ubuntu and left Vista where it was. Help please

What do you have for boot options? more specifically, the actual entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst, should look something like this:

quote:

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=08f33cba-9d66-4164-98c8-11fe531f6644 ro quiet splash xforcevesa
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
quiet

There should be a line in there that says:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS

And then an entry after it.

Also, what are the contents of /boot/grub/device.map?

Also, what's the output of sudo fdisk -l? Need the actual partition layout.

Ashex fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Oct 15, 2008

# ? Oct 15, 2008 08:43

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Ashex posted:

What do you have for boot options? more specifically, the actual entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst, should look something like this:

There should be a line in there that says:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS

And then an entry after it.

Also, what are the contents of /boot/grub/device.map?

Also, what's the output of sudo fdisk -l? Need the actual partition layout.

fdisk:

code:

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa631a631

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         510     4096543+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2             511        7503    56171272+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            7504       12161    37415385    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            7504       12161    37415353+   7  HPFS/NTFS

device.map:

code:

(hd0)	/dev/sda

Can't seem to find anything about what you mentioned in menu.lst. Here are the boot options:

code:

title 		Microsoft Windows Vista
root 		(hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader 	+1

title		Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=2e87cead-ba77-421a-906a-1690a08b121c ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=2e87cead-ba77-421a-906a-1690a08b121c ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

# ? Oct 15, 2008 09:07

Lucien: May 2, 2007; check it out i'm a samurai ^_^

my stepdads beer posted:

I think Ubuntu wiped out the windows bootloader when I installed it. I replaced my XP partition (the original OS on here) with Ubuntu and left Vista where it was. Help please

Is Vista on a logical partition? If so, delete the "makeactive" option, as it will throw that error.

Edit: Vista might have had its boot loader files stored in your XP partition http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#12_

Edit2: Wait, sda5 is always logical right? Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here. You might wanna work through that link I posted...

Lucien fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Oct 15, 2008

# ? Oct 15, 2008 09:07

deong: Jun 13, 2001; I'll see you in heck!

Great news! Adobe Flash has officially updated to version 10, and this time across all cross platforms.
New version can be installed from :
Adobe D/L Page

Installation available in deb/rpm/tarballs.

So far, its been a lot better than previous versions. v10 has fixed flash layering issues that I used to have with sites like http://remix.nin.com. Previous versions would crash on http://mint.com when building graphs, but no longer. And so far, I've had luck with Youtube, which used to crash Firefox if I watched more than 1 video in succession.

I've only been using it for 30 mins or so, but its much better for me thus far. And its just awesome that Adobe is starting to really embrace Linux it seems. Atleast on the flash end.

# ? Oct 15, 2008 15:58

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

deong posted:

Great news! Adobe Flash has officially updated to version 10, and this time across all cross platforms.

I sure as hell hope they've finally fixed the response times for the "On (Press)" sound playback.

gently caress.

EDIT: Of course they didn't.

Accipiter fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 15, 2008

# ? Oct 15, 2008 16:07

Deacon of Delicious: Aug 20, 2007; I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

Anybody have any recent experience with Linux From Scratch? I'm curious about what makes Linux tick, and this seems like a good (and maybe somewhat tedious) way to see how everything works at the most basic level.

# ? Oct 15, 2008 21:48

Lucien: May 2, 2007; check it out i'm a samurai ^_^

Deacon of Delicious posted:

Anybody have any recent experience with Linux From Scratch? I'm curious about what makes Linux tick, and this seems like a good (and maybe somewhat tedious) way to see how everything works at the most basic level.

That looks pretty cool and I might actually give that a try some time - but if you're not into compiling, Arch Linux gave me a somewhat similar experience of building my own system with a great up-to-date repository of binary packages. If you're relatively new to Linux, that might be a sensible intermediate step.

# ? Oct 16, 2008 01:53

Ashex: Jun 25, 2007; These pipes are cleeeean!!!

Anyone know how to remap the blue Access IBM key on a T42 in Ubuntu? I used to have it and mapped it to launch my media player when I was using Gutsy.
However after upgrading to Hardy, I haven't been able to use it.
I checked it in xev and nothing shows up when I press it.

# ? Oct 16, 2008 06:10

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Lucien posted:

Is Vista on a logical partition? If so, delete the "makeactive" option, as it will throw that error.

Edit: Vista might have had its boot loader files stored in your XP partition http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#12_

Edit2: Wait, sda5 is always logical right? Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here. You might wanna work through that link I posted...

Cheers. Still can't get it working though

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

Currently trying this link

# ? Oct 16, 2008 11:26

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# ? May 24, 2024 00:15

Lucien: May 2, 2007; check it out i'm a samurai ^_^

my stepdads beer posted:

Cheers. Still can't get it working though

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

Currently trying this link

What a loving nightmare. I'm not the type to go on about Micro$haft Windoze LOL but some poor decisions were made concerning the dual boot handling. Good luck!

# ? Oct 16, 2008 12:25

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